Delicious and easy apple cake
An apple cake is a cake that includes apples as the main ingredient. It may also include other ingredients such as sugar, flour, eggs, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. You can serve it as a dessert, breakfast or afternoon snack. For adventure, the cake can be topped with icing sugar, ice cream, caramel, whipped cream or any other topping of your choice.
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Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 apples peeled and grated
- ¾ sugar/honey
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- ½ cup unsalted butter/margarine at room temperature
- 2 eggs large size
- ½ cup milk
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp cinnamon
Instructions
Step one:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
Step two:
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
- In a separate large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix well after each addition.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, mixing well after each addition.
- Stir in the grated apples, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix until just combined.
Step three:
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
- Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan and placing it on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once cooled, you can serve the cake as is or top with your desired toppings such as caramel sauce, whipped cream, or a dusting of powdered sugar.
Notes
Feel free to adjust the amount of sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg to your taste. You can as well omit some of these ingredients . I do not like cinnamon that much so I do not use it when baking apple cake. Also you could experiment with different types of apples.
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